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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8344" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8344">A year ago, we did a DealBITS drawing for the program GarageSale, from iwascoding.com. GarageSale is a Mac OS X application that acts as a front-end for posting auctions on eBay</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 05 Dec 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8346"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8346', 'show')">A Better Way to Install Applications</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8346" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8346">One nicety about Mac OS X packages (folders that look like files; they're how most applications are delivered these days) is that they make installation easy</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 05 Dec 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8349"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8349', 'show')">Take Control News/05-Dec-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8349" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8349">PayPal Now Accepted for Take Control Orders -- Thanks to an upgrade to our shopping cart functionality from our friends at eSellerate, we can now accept PayPal payments for Take Control ebooks</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 05 Dec 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8329" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8329">Next Issue 05-Dec-05 -- It's been a tough month here, with Jeff Carlson recovering from a broken collarbone and decamping for a four-week trip to South Africa, Geoff's knee losing a brawl with his bass amp, Tonya having numerous inconclusive tests and doctor appointments as we attempt to figure out why she's having trouble breathing, and a slew of Take Control books queued up for release</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 21 Nov 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8330"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8330', 'show')">Submit Your Holiday 2005 Gift Ideas</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8330" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8330">Submit Your Holiday 2005 Gift Ideas -- Although the Christmas decorations appeared in some stores here even before Halloween, the time has finally come to start planning for our annual gift issue, overflowing as it does every year with suggestions from our readers</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 21 Nov 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8331" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8331">SpamSieve 2.4 Released -- Michael Tsai has updated his popular and powerful spam detection utility SpamSieve to version 2.4 (see "Tools We Use: SpamSieve" in TidBITS-667 for a full review)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 21 Nov 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8332"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8332', 'show')">Firmware Update Solves Power Mac G5 1.8 GHz Freezes</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8332" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8332">Firmware Update Solves Power Mac G5 1.8 GHz Freezes -- Last week, a reader wrote in asking if we knew anything more about the freezing problems he was having with his single processor Power Mac G5 1.8 GHz</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 21 Nov 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8333" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8333">DealBITS Drawing: Sunatori.com Pen Winners -- Congratulations to Gloria White of rockingham.k12.va.us and Stefan Keydel of mac.com, whose entries were chosen randomly from 694 valid entries in last week's DealBITS drawing and who each will be receiving a Sunatori.com Pen from HyperInfo Canada, worth $20</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 21 Nov 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8335" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8335">In my last article about GPS devices with voice-navigation, I mentioned that Magellan was coming out with the RoadMate 760, an upgrade to the RoadMate 700 I was then reviewing that offered two additional features: SayWhere, a text-to-speech capability that enables the device to read the name of the street on which you were next to turn, and SmartDetour, which automatically reroutes you around traffic jams and other obstructions</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 21 Nov 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8336"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8336', 'show')">Take Control News/21-Nov-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8336" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8336">"Take Control of Switching to the Mac" Released -- There's little more frustrating than watching a friend or relative struggle with Windows when you know they'd be happier with a Mac</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 21 Nov 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8322" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8322">Mellel 2.0 Ships -- The Israeli company RedleX has released Mellel 2.0, a significant upgrade to their word processor with a slew of new features aimed largely at working with long and complex documents</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 14 Nov 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8323" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8323">And now for something completely different! Long-time TidBITS reader Simon Sunatori recently contacted us about doing a DealBITS drawing for a new pen he'd invented and patented, and while it wasn't Mac-related (other than coming in colors reminiscent of the original iPod mini), I was sufficiently intrigued to check it out</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 14 Nov 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8326"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8326', 'show')">Audio File Concatenation: Driven to Distraction by DRM</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8326" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8326">As I wrote in "iPods Defeating Insomnia" in TidBITS-768, Tonya and I like to listen to audio books on our iPod to help us fall asleep at night</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 14 Nov 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8327"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8327', 'show')">Take Control News/14-Nov-05</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8327" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8327">"Take Control of Digital TV" Released -- Although many of us know a fair amount about Macintosh hardware, delving into the world of digital television is a humbling experience - it involves a baffling array of buzzwords and acronyms, and that's before you get into deciding between direct view and projection TVs and trying to tease out the relevant differences between LCD, plasma, DLP, and CRT-based sets</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 14 Nov 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8314" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8314">Grokster Shuts Down -- After June's Supreme Court decision declaring that Grokster (along with StreamCast Networks and Sharman Networks) were responsible for copyright infringements that occurred as a result of using the companies' peer-to-peer file sharing software, Grokster's network has shut down</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 07 Nov 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8319"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8319', 'show')">iCamShare & ImageTricks Top Photo Booth</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8319" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8319">One of the highlights of the just-released iMac G5 models is Photo Booth, a fun little application that works with the built-in iSight camera in the iMac</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 07 Nov 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8306" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8306">OmniWeb 5.1.2 Released -- The Omni Group has released OmniWeb 5.1.2, a minor update aimed primarily at fixing bugs (see "OmniWeb 5.0: The Powerful Web Browser" in TidBITS-742 for a full review)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 31 Oct 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8307"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8307', 'show')">Apple Opens iTunes Music Store in Australia</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8307" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8307">Apple Opens iTunes Music Store in Australia -- Much to the delight of some of our friends down under, Apple has finally opened a version of the iTunes Music Store in Australia</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 31 Oct 2005</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8310" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8310">After releasing Retrospect 6.1 several weeks ago (see "Retrospect 6.1 Gains Full Tiger Compatibility" in TidBITS-799), EMC Dantz has pumped out a few more minor updates</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 31 Oct 2005</div></div>
<a href="/article/8294"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8294', 'show')">Preventing Second Drive Sleepiness</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8294" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8294">Preventing Second Drive Sleepiness -- A while back I wanted some more disk space in my Power Mac G4, but I didn't want to buy a new boot drive to replace the 80 GB drive I've been using for a while</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 24 Oct 2005</div></div>
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